Cynical Quotes - Page 21

• I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.

  Adrian Hodges

  Past, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, President

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

  Alice Rivlin

  Government

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• I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Important, Culture, Pops

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 07, 2007.

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• As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

  Anya Seton

  Mother, Reading, Way

  Anya Seton (2013). “Green Darkness”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's so much easier to be cynical.

  Louie Anderson

  Easier

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• Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

  Agnes Smedley

  Education, Book, Men

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all cut together and all of those precious little pieces you put in are maybe on the cutting room floor. So, you don’t have that much control. You have very little control, in fact.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Cutting, Numbers, Choices

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Democracy

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• The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

  Pete Townshend

  Band, Machines, Audience

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• We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

  Adora Svitak

  Kids, Giving, Might

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• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

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• I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: collider.com

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• No one more cynical than an idealist.

  Tanith Lee

  Idealist

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  Anton Chekhov

  Drinking, Vocabulary, Literature

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, December 24, 1886.

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• There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Politics, Telling The Truth

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.217, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, Women, People

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• I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

  Robert Lopez

  Smart, Thinking, Profound

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• I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Practicals

  "Iinterview: Zooey Deschanel (FAILURE TO LAUNCH)". www.chud.com. March 9, 2006.

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• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  Sarah Polley

  Teenager, Acting, Done

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Views, Point Of View, Concerned

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• I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

  Gore Vidal

  Problem, Realistic, Seems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.

  Jason Segel

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Political, Groups

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